It is a multicultural tolerance that's also valued by Mr Jian Zhong Yin

"The environment is very good. When we talk of environment, it is not only the natural environment, it's also about the community and the people. It's very harmonious, and there's a very good legal system."

"Here I don't feel I'm a foreigner. I think I am a new Kununurra farmer, so I feel here very much at home."

Although the new Chinese investors have a high profile in Australia, there's also investor interest from the Middle East and Europe.

Director general of the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, Rob Delane, says it's a ‘mixed bag’.

“It’s been generally pretty careful, pretty measured and probably a lot less investment than the level of interest.

“There’s been a lot of traffic, not all translating into investment.”

The Beidahuang Group interest in Australian land for grain, did translate into significant investment in Western Australia.

The Chinese company, through its Australian registered business arm Heilongjiang Feng Agricultural (HFA) and farm operator Vicstock Grain, bought three farms covering over 36,000 hectares between Lake Varley and Ongerup.

It's also spent about $200 million in the past six months buying and leasing over 85,000 hectares of wheatbelt farmland.

“It is a massive enterprise. They’re on record saying this is a very serious long-term investment for them,” Mr Delane said.

This will create a lot of jobs, a lot of economic activity. The vast majority of the activity will be here, the land will stay on the Australian map, as will the infrastructure.

Rob Delane, Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia speaking about the Beidahuang Group investments in grain.

HFA has committed to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in an integrated supply chain from Albany to China, to grow grain in the Great Southern and ship it out of Albany port back to China.

“This will create a lot of jobs, a lot of economic activity.

“The vast majority of the activity will be here, the land will stay on the Australian map, as will the infrastructure.”

To point investors in the right direction and streamline the foreign investment process, the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia

has formed the InvestWest Agribusiness Alliance.

Mr Delane says there's a lot of work to be done to make the agriculture sector in WA 'investment ready'.

“Better promotion of Western Australia by everyone, not just Government agencies, education of potential investors and facilitation of them coming to the state.